Current students

University of Melbourne

Zeyi Liu, MSc student in Bioinformatics
Zeyi is interested in how spatial gradients in climate and hosts alter genomic variation in a galling insect.

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Students advised at University of California - Riverside

Conner Lay, PhD student through EEOB
co-advised with Dr. Kate Ostevik

email: clay007[at]ucr.edu

​Conner is interested in how plants interact with their abiotic and biotic environments. He wants to better understand how environmental changes such as habitat fragmentation and climate variation contribute to genetic diversity​ and adaptation.

Nate Collison, PhD student through BPSC
co-advised with Dr. Niels Groen

​email: wcoll010[at]ucr.edu 

Nate is broadly interested in molecular plant-biotic-environment interactions. He is focusing on the molecular mechanisms by which parasites manipulate their plant hosts, and the reciprocal means by which plants protect themselves.

Alumni

Josh successfully found WAA in both WA and CA to help finish his project.

Josh Wemmer, MS, 2019
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Thesis: ​Characterizing the Dual Transcriptomes of Woolly Apple Aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), and its Host, Malus domestica (Borkh.), Across a Host Resistance Spectrum